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"If prisoners in federal custody were allowed to challenge their detainment based on alleged political persecution, the effect on the President's duties to conduct foreign affairs, direct the military, and take care that the laws are faithfully executed would be immediate and calamitous." /1

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"No longer would the president be free to seek the candid advice of his closest advisors. Instead, every exercise of his constitutional powers would be undertaken with the certainty that it would be reexamined by a judge far removed from the exigencies of the office."

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